Language name and locationː Koyukon, Koyukuk, Alaska, USA [Ref to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区科尤孔语, 美国阿拉斯加育空河-中科尤庫克河流域地区

 

1. kk’eełekee

2. neteekee 

3. tokee

4. denee

5. keełts’edenaale

6. daanaan k'eetakee (litː 'across one');  neełkaa tokkʼee (lit: 'three from both hands')

7. daanaan niteekee (litː 'across two');

    neełkaa tokkʼee k’eełekee bedeeʼonee (lit: 'three from both hands plus one')

8. neetkaa dinee (litː 'four from both hands');

    neełkaa denee (lit: 'four from both hands')

9. neetkaa dink'ee, eelakee bidee'onee (litː 'four from both hands plus one');

    neełozenaale k’eełeke kkelye (lit: 'ten minus one')  

10. neełoznaal (lit: 'on both hands'); keelhudaaltonee (litː 'one stick');

     daltonee (litː 'a stick (with notches')  

11. neełoznaal eelakee bedee'onee (2x 5+1); 

     neełoznaal eelakee bedeełkoolee  (2x 5+1); 

     kʼeełhudaaltonee eelakee bedee'onee (10+1)

12. neełoznaal neteekee bedee'onee; (2x 5+2);

     neełoznaal neteekee bedeełkoyee; (2x 5+2); 

     kʼeełhudaaltonee neteekee bedee'onee (10+2)

13. neełoznaal tokee bedee'onee (2x 5+3); 

     neełoznaal tokee bedeełkoyee (2x 5+3);  

     keełhudaaltonee tokee bedee'onee (10+3)

14. neełoznaale denee bedee'onee (2x 5+4);

     neełoznaale denee bedeeloyee (2x 5+4);

     kʼeełhu daaltonee denee bedeełtaanee (10+4);

     denaakkaaʼ kelyee kʼełekee bʉgh kkelyee (15-1)

15. denaakkaaʼ kkʼeł, denaakkaaʼ kkʼelyee (litː 'one side of our feet') 

16. denaakkaaʼ kkʼelyee k’eełekee bedeełkoyee (15+1);

     neełoznaale donaan k’eełekee bedeeloyee (10+5+1);

     kʼeełhu daaltonee neełkkʼaa tokee bedeełtaanee (10+6)

17. denaakkaaʼ kkʼelyee neteekee bedeeloyee (15+2);

      neełoznaale donaan neteekee bedeeloyee (10+5+2); 

      kʼeełhu daaltonee neełkkʼaa tokee k’eełekee bedeełtaanee (10+7)  

18. denaakkaaʼ kkʼelyee tokee bedeeloyee (15+3);

      neełoznaale neełkkʼaa denee bedeeloyee (10+8);

      k’eełekee neletoghee neteekee bʉgh kkelyee (1x 20-2);

      kʼeełhu daaltonee neełkkʼaa denee bedeełtaanee (10+8)

19. k’eełekee neletoghee kʼełekee bʉgh kkelyee (1x 20-1);

      kʼeełhu daaltonee neełaa denee kʼeełekee bedeełtaanee (10+8 +1)

20. eełakat duhuyee (litː 'one (set) of our fingers and toes')

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Melissa Axelrod, Department of Linguistics,  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, August 18, 2021. Reference: Jules Jetté, Eliza Jones, James Kari. 2000. Koyukon Athabascan Dictionary.

Alaska Native Language Center, Alaska.
提供资的语言家: Prof. Melissa Axelrod, 2021 年 8 月 18 日.

 

Other comments: Kuyukon (Ten’a) or Denaakk’e, Kenaakk’enaage is a seriously endangered Athabascan language spoken only by approximately 150 speakers in Koyukuk and middle Yukon rivers in Alaska. Kuyokun has a counting system which can count up to 1000 neełoznaale tsebeesge denaadleduggee' (10 x 100). and there are two systems in common use fro counting from six to nine. Numbers  10 through 20 can be formed through combination ( multiplication, addition; and subtraction) of lower numerals to reach the appropriate sum. There are also optional conventionalized term for 10, 15, 20, 25, and 100. Thus numbers 10 through 19 may be based either on 10, 15, or 20. Like the lower numerals, these optional forms can enter into combination with other numerals to form ever higher sums.

Note that the data was written in the American Phonetic Notation. Nasalization is indicated with a ''hook'' underneath the vowel and consonant glottalization is indicated with an apostrophe behind the consonant.


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